Plague and the Athenian Imagination - Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius

Klappentext This book investigates the effect of the great plague of Athens on its literary and social imagination. Zusammenfassung This book investigates the effect of the great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. It proposes a significant relationship between the new Temple of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue; 1. Introduction; 2. Death, myth and drama before the Plague; 3. Materials I: the language of disease in tragedy; 4. Plague, cult and drama: Euripides' Hippolytus; 5. Oedipus and the Plague; 6. Trachiniae and the Plague; 7. Materials II: the cult of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus; 8. Disease and stasis in Euripidean drama: tragic pharmacology on the south slope of the Acropolis; 9. The Athenian Asklepieion and the end of Philoctetes; 10. Conclusions and afterthoughts.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Mitchell-Boyask
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521296373
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29637-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval